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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
May 19, 1920
Page
7
The British Ministry of Pensions shows 58 percent of the ten war disability pensions up to Sept 1 1918 were for disease rather than wounds. Tuberculosis and chest complaints account for 11.2 percent, rheumatism 6.5 percent, and heart disease 9.0 percent, with American figures incomplete.
The article recounts a man who, after fifteen years of work in Washington under his employer, discovers a misapplied travel fund of $9,000 in travelers' documents. He learns of an income tax issue and, with his employer, travels to South America to start a ranch, with the employer purchasing his checks and signaling no tax due.
Immigrants must read thirty or forty words from Psalms in any language chosen. Immigration inspectors carry language cards with verses. Cards cover German Hebrew Japanese Russian and other tongues, with Chinese excluded for safety. Each language offers forty distinct verses to prevent learning another's Psalm.
A fragmentary note from Rost. Post describes Johnny returning home with a bad cold. The message asks to keep him out of the Prenne class and mentions lingering throat issues and English difficulties. The handwriting is unclear but conveys concern for his health and schooling.
In Staines near Belfant church two ancient yews are trained as peacocks flanking a wicket gate. Topiary art thrives in Britain with gardens at stately houses and a Royal Kew collection of nearly 3,000 trimmed trees forming animals and architectural shapes amid patient craft and long generations.
The American Forestry association lists the Tree on Boston Common and the Green Tree hotel at LeClaire Iowa among nominees for its Hall of Fame for big trees. Other entrants include the De Soto Oak at Tampa Florida the octopus tree in Charles City County Virginia the two oaks at Marlinton Virginia and the Podgoritza tallest tree in the Balkans nominated by the Red Cross.
The piece argues music is essential, not mere luxuries, citing its calming effects on shell shocked veterans and its role in patriotism religion and church services. It asks whether music elevates church or amusement venues and highlights its broadened value since the war.
A gentleman with a grand French name opens a high end Fifth Avenue jewelry store. No items are displayed for under ten thousand dollars and clerks wear parliaments in frock coats. A customer seeking an emerald ring offered eighteen thousand dollars. the clerk declined, noting cheaper rings at a rival 5 and 10 cent store down the street.
Since 1015 the first year with enatomes statistics for imports of conserved ash toto the Dutch East sp ces are given the United States has had a fair share of the market. Before the war practically all the salmon came from the Pacific coast and in recent years when other sources were closed sardines and herring were also brought from the United States.
A Boston Transcript remark recalls Agnes-Rhat asking how someone proposed, noting it was leap year and the suitor was influenced by the date to pop the question. The anecdote highlights public fascination with unusual marriage timing.
Fragmentary passage hints at Carlyle’s prophecy and America facing a thousandfold wrestle with pythons and mud demons before it can become a habitation for the young. The text frames a moral and existential test for the nation.
Uncle Sam knows his boys through finger prints and a refined navy system for care. Twins applying for enlistment illustrate facial memory and identity safeguards, with memory loss and other cringes noted as easily handled.
A Warsaw tale describes cats vanishing during wartime with the Red Cross warehouse overrun by rats. Citizens offer their pets to guard food and clothing stores, and a guardian is chosen, after which the cats disappear again.
Campbell Linton argues coal waste on every square mile could yield nearly 200000000 horsepower. He imagines a future where solar or sun powered engines replace coal driven systems from autos to ships, railways, and homes, reducing furnaces and stokers as technology advances.
Stanley recounts apes carrying torches at night but these claims are unlikely as monkey tribes fear fire. Gorillas, however, approach deserted campfires seeking warmth though they do not sustain embers with fuel.
A home hair coloring advertises Q-Ban Hair Color Restorer to darken gray hair naturally in days. It claims to invigorate the scalp and color glands, giving an even dark shade without a heady appearance, with Albany Drug Co in Albany Alabama listed as a contact.
An old advertisement claims Spring Fever is low vitality from impure blood. Grove's Tasteless Chill Tonic purports to purify and enrich the blood, restoring vitality and energy with a strengthening, invigorating effect. 60c.
A Little Rock bank official speaks of Puratone aiding his stomach trouble ind digestion and insomnia after two years of decline. He reports better appetite sleep and relief from indigestion heartburn and nerves and praises the medicine’s effects on his health.
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